Can't halt or reboot with user account!!!!!!
 

Hi, guys

Sorry for bothering again, but do you know how can i halt or reboot my system with my user account. i can do that under root, but not with user. it's a lil not comfy.

Thanks a looot!

Most distro's have a gui to configure these things, don't know about Slackware.

You can also use the command line.

Create (check) a file in /etc called shutdown.allow, put the user in there.

Check man shutdown, the ACCESS CONTROL section.

Hi,

thanks for the tipp, but i don't have this file. any other ideas?

Take a peak at the man shutdown page. I believe it gives information on how to setup a shutdown.allow page. You would need to create it in Slackware. :D

well i checked the man shutdown & i saw that i miss

/etc/init.d/halt
/etc/init.d/reboot

what should i do next?

reboot or halt from unprivileged accounts
 

On my systems I prefer not to follow this method. I just use "su -c reboot" or "su -c halt"
This will ask for the root password and thats it.
No need to do any configuring. simple.

Keep in mind that the man pages are generic for the tool and assume that all *nixes are the same. They are not. For slackware, the halt/shutdown file is found in /etc/rc.d/rc.6.

you just need the permission to run /sbin/shutdown and then set an alias to it.

you can do that with "chmod +s /sbin/shutdown" as root.
And then ad an alias to your ~/.bashrc : alias off=´/sbin/shutdown -h now´
;)

eeeh, i guess I'd consider that somewhat of a security risk having users able to reboot or halt the system. A friend of mine did it a lot as an annoyance to me when i did have it set. Angered me severly ;-P

i am stuck! can someone explains it for a newbie? it's really frustrating!

In order to shutdown you can type this in a console...

su -c "shutdown -h now"

to reboot..

su -c "reboot"

In BOTH cases it will ask for the root password. This is your best and easiest bet for now.

If you are physically at the machine another way is to configure it so that ctrl-alt-del halts the machine.

See this thread

Read the manpage of sudo. It's a secure way to allow users to shutdown/restart the computer -- no permisions to change.

man sudo

In slackware:
Using root, in Konqueror (file manager) on advanced permissions menu:
set uid for /sbin/shutdown
and add menu items:
for Halt - power down:
command: /sbin/shutdown -h now
for Reboot - power up:
command: /sbin/shutdown -r now

you have to setuid /usr/sbin/halt
as root do:

chmod a+s /usr/sbin/halt
chmod a+s /usr/sbin/reboot

but make sure /usr/sbin path in your $PATH. if doesnt then create symlink from your path to /usr/bin.